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Important Foreign Markets 
The important foreign markets for apples are locates 
in Northern Europe, Canada, Mexico, and south America, Dur 
ing the shipping season of 1930-31 the principal ports of 
destination in Europe were Liverpool, Lonuon, Glasgow, Man 
Chester, and Scandinavian ports. Eefore the war Hamburg 
and Bremen, Germany, were important markets, but to date 
have barely started to recover. The past five years have 
shown a great increase in demand for American apples in 
Mexico, Brasil, Argentina, and Cuba. To some degree Aus¬ 
tralia, New Zealand, China and the Philippine Islands have 
demonstrated their ability to absorb some of our surplus 
apples. It is hoped that these markets can be extended as 
better facilities and channels for marketing the fruit in 
these newer countries have been developed. Since the har¬ 
vest season in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand comes 
about six months later than that in the United States con¬ 
siderable quantities of fresh fruit are imported by these 
countries in off seasons. This market can be further de¬ 
veloped and be made to serve as an additional outlet for 
apples from the Western States and Canada. 
During the past the United Kingdom has been our best 
customer taking one million ana more barrels annually. The 
largest exports to this country were made in the fiscal 
year 1915-1916 totaling 1,747,393 barrels. The year 1904 
was second with 1,553,341 barrels, and the calendar year 
1931 third with a total of nearly 
one and one half million 
